ON THE STUDENT OCCUPATION MOVEMENT IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (2015-2016)

Abstract

The “Secondary Spring” was a phenomenon characterized by the occupation of public schools, universities and federal institutes throughout the national territory (2015-2016). The movement was led by young students from the public school system, bringing as its agenda the Reform of Secondary Education, and Constitutional Amendment nº 55, known as "PEC do Ceto". Female protagonism emerged as one of the latent elements of this period. We can say that the youth condition, in addition to being socially constructed, also has a spatial and temporal configuration. Based on research previously carried out in the Paraíba region (AUTHOR;2017;2020), and currently in her doctorate in the Sociology/UFC Postgraduate Program, the article focuses on the movement of occupation of schools, paying attention to the speeches of these subjects who graduated from these movements and the repercussions of gender issues on the political culture of these young women in their speeches. To this end, questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and focus groups were used. We initially point out that not all participants demobilized politically, on the other hand, the initiative to seek new spaces to express themselves expanded the very notion of “politics”.